by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 31, 2014 | Standing In The Shadows
The rush to the shortest day has ended, although there’s still a day and a half of school left, and rushing, rushing before the daze ahead. We’ve got about 30 on Thursday here. We’ve got all that stepping out of time, which comes with a...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Apr 25, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
This is that most awkward of blog entries: the inaugural post, in which (channeling Pooh) the author tries to introduce herself and give the reader some idea what the story is. Or perhaps, what my story is. Well, here it is. I wanted to start a blog about these...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Apr 26, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
It's fair to say that before moving to New England, where I have lived–other than a year and a half sojourn to London–since 1981, when I started Hampshire College, I didn't appreciate spring. Okay, I was barely eighteen. I could argue that there...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Apr 27, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
If you're a follower of modern day parenting and media coverage about modern day parenting, you realize that in the so-called "mommy wars," breastfeeding is not unlike a country with ongoing, supposedly insoluable conflicts (think, Middle East for...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Apr 28, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
Day by day practically, we seem to be learning about the unconscionable wrongdoings the previous administration deemed "necessary." I put the word in quotes, because it is so unbelievable to think–despite so much evidence reported, even then, to those...